Dry-goods measure



H. C. CAREY. l

DRY GOODS MEASURE. I

y APPLICATION FILED AUGJS. 192|.

1,413,254. v Patented Apr. 1922;

* jfmw/ @W HARRY C. CAREY, OF CARPE1\TlIEll:`t,KV SOUTH DAKOTA.

DRY-cnous MEASURE.

Specification of Iletters Patent.

Application filed August 13, 1921. Serial No. 492,101.V

To all fw/Lom t may concern:

vBe it known-that I, HARRY C.V CAREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carpenter, in the county of Clark and State of South Dakota, have. invented new and useful Improvements in Dry-Goods Measures, of which the following is aspecifioation to accurately indicatethe length of the l strip of goods remaining inthe bolt after portions of the goods have been outra-nd Y removed from the bolt.Vv Y

ATo the attainment of the foregoing, the

Ainvention consists in vthe. improvement as hereinafter described and Vdefinitely claimed; In the accompanying draw1ngs, form1ng part of this specification Figure l is a perspective showingmy iin-A provement applied.

Figures 2-3 are detail views hereinafter explicitly referred to. Y Similar numerals designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the draw-V ings.

The bolt of -dry goods is designated 1, and my novel measure is designated by 2. The specific graduations of the measure 2 arenot of the essence of my invention though I- prefer to make the graduations in yards and'fractions of yards forl obvious reasons.

YIn accordance with myv invention the Vmeasure 2 in the form of a tape is formed of appropriate material possessed `of sufi-y cient pliability or ductility to retain the shape inw-hich it is placed. Because of this capacity of the tape an inner end portion 3 and an outer end'portio-n 4 of the said tapeV are adapted to'be bent into hook- ,i

form to positively engage -the inner vand outer ends, respectively, of the strip of dry goods l, and are also adaptedgto be pressed .i

Patenten api'.` is, 1922.

or clampedY against the said vendiportionsi with a view to preventing casualV disconnection or displacement of the hook ends fromA the strip of dry goodsand this without Vinjuringin any degree any portion ofy theV piece of dry goods; From this it follows y Y be engaged withf `the innerend of the piece of dry goods until the last portion of the bolt is sold; also, ,thatY that the hoo-k end 3 will as each Vlength of (goods is lcut fromKV the bolt, the measure 2 will also be out, after -f which a fresh portion of the measure 2'will i be bent vinto the hook form t and pressed or clamped against the remaining outer end portion ofthe dry-goods to secure 'the said fresh portion of the measure relatively to the outerend portion of the pieceofY goods.

In this way the measure will always beV retained in proper tively to the bolt of will be promoted.

will be apparentY from foregoing, that the improvedmeasure may be produced l' so `cheaply, as to render` it feasible for a .working kposition rela' y goods, and accuracy of l the measure afforded by the improvement mea-'sure to be used up Vincident to the vend- I ing of a bolt of'dry goods.

Manifestly throughV the medium of the/fk 80 measure characterized as describedthe ven-l dor ofthe goods will be informed at all `times of the'amount of goods remaining in l the bolt. Y A I Having described my invention, what v .857

claim and ent, is: Y l Y As a new article of manufacture, a graduated tape measure for use in a bolt ofdry goods'V and forarrangement lengthwise Vof the strip comprised inthe bolt; the said measure being characterized throughout its desire to secure by Letters-Fat# length by pliability or ductility sufficient to permit of its end portions being bent into hooks and when so pressed being pressed fagainst the end portions of thev strip .offf95 goods and when so pressed Vto clamp theVY4`L goods and retain themselves in position on said end portions.L

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.HARRY o. CAREY.

In testimony whereof, I -ailixjy my signa-Kl i 

